“Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.”

“The feeling "I'll be happy when X happens" will never bring you anything but discontentment.”

“The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.”

“You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.”

“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.”

“...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill.”

“(Shoddiness is) the nature of human life. It takes an exertion to be indifferent to these things, but it's an exertion worth making. Also, it allows you luxuries like scorn and flippancy.”